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What grade would you give this film?
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College Boy Z

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Wall Street is a 1987 American drama film released by 20th Century Fox. It was directed by Oliver Stone and stars Michael Douglas, Charlie Sheen and Daryl Hannah. The screenplay was written by Stanley Weiser and Stone. The film tells the story of Bud Fox (Sheen), a young stockbroker desperate to succeed who becomes involved with his hero, Gordon Gekko (Douglas), a wealthy, unscrupulous corporate raider.

Stone made the film as a tribute to his father, Lou Stone, a stockbroker during the Great Depression. The character of Gekko is said to be a composite of several people, including Owen Morrisey, Dennis Levine, Ivan Boesky, Carl Icahn, Asher Edelman, Michael Ovitz, Michael Milken, and Stone himself. Originally, the studio wanted Warren Beatty to play Gekko but he was not interested and Stone wanted Richard Gere but the actor passed. Stone went with Douglas even though he had been advised by others in Hollywood not to cast him.

The film was well-received among major film critics including Roger Ebert and The New York Times. Douglas won the Academy Award for Best Actor, and the film has come to be seen as the archetypal portrayal of 1980s excess, with Douglas's character advocating that "greed, for lack of a better word, is good". It has also proven influential in inspiring people to work on Wall Street with Sheen, Douglas and Stone commenting over the years how people still approach them and say that they became stockbrokers because of their respective characters in the film.

Stone and Douglas have reunited for a sequel titled Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps, which will be released on September 24, 2010.


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Wall Street definitely shows some eeriness of manipulation and greed in everyday life, especially in the business world, and is done so convincingly with a strong performance from Michael Douglas. Douglas seems like the easy person to get along with here even though he does have that evil reign in him at the end that could of fallen as a disaster if it weren't for Douglas' strong work. Charlie Sheen is not too shabby here either and his ending does kind of stink due to the resolution he was trying to make. The film is shot beautifully as well. There is some shakiness in plot every now and then. Also, some scenes drag on too long while a couple are cut a bit too short. Outside these flaws though the film is satisfying and one that leaves the viewer thinking for a bit afterwards. ***


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Douglas is great, of course, but I'm not much of a fan of the rest of it. Just another overblown Oliver Stone work.

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